Seems like he was believing some Hindoo stuff jist then.

I don't know as you ever heart tell of it.

It's about souls.
When a person dies his soul goes into another person, and so on, until kingdom come.

R'inca'nation's what they call it." "Yes," said Eliph' Hewlitt, "it is all given in 'India, Its Religions and Its History,' in Jarby's Encyclopedia of Knowledge and Compendium of Literature, Science and Art." "Jist so!" said Mrs.Weaver.

"Well, I guess by the time Doc got done explainin' I knew more about r'inca'nation than what your Encyclopedia of Compendium does, because night after night Doc would sit up and explain till I'd drop off asleep.
"But it wasn't no use.